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Gene duplication and evolutionary novelty in plants by Flagel, Lex E., Wendel, Jonathan F.

“…Duplication is a prominent feature of plant genomic architecture. This has led many researchers to speculate that gene duplication may have played an important…”
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Evolutionary rate variation, genomic dominance and duplicate gene expression evolution during allotetraploid cotton speciation by Flagel, Lex E., Wendel, Jonathan F.

“…Here, we describe the evolution of gene expression among a diversified cohort of five allopolyploid species in the cotton genus (Gossypium). Using this…”
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Evolutionary genetics of genome merger and doubling in plants by Doyle, Jeff J, Flagel, Lex E, Paterson, Andrew H, Rapp, Ryan A, Soltis, Douglas E, Soltis, Pamela S, Wendel, Jonathan F

“…Polyploidy is a common mode of evolution in flowering plants. The profound effects of polyploidy on gene expression appear to be caused more by hybridity than…”
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Duplicate gene evolution, homoeologous recombination, and transcriptome characterization in allopolyploid cotton by Flagel, Lex E, Wendel, Jonathan F, Udall, Joshua A

“…Modern allotetraploid cotton contains an "A" and "D" genome from an ancestral polyploidy event that occurred approximately 1-2 million years ago. Diploid A-…”
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Chronosequence of invasion reveals minimal losses of population genomic diversity, niche expansion, and trait divergence in the polyploid, leafy spurge by Lake, Thomas A., Briscoe Runquist, Ryan D., Flagel, Lex E., Moeller, David A.

“…Rapid evolution may play an important role in the range expansion of invasive species and modify forecasts of invasion, which are the backbone of land…”
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GOOGA: A platform to synthesize mapping experiments and identify genomic structural diversity by Flagel, Lex E, Blackman, Benjamin K, Fishman, Lila, Monnahan, Patrick J, Sweigart, Andrea, Kelly, John K

“…Understanding genomic structural variation such as inversions and translocations is a key challenge in evolutionary genetics. We develop a novel statistical…”
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Rapid molecular evolution across amniotes of the IIS/TOR network by McGaugh, Suzanne E., Bronikowski, Anne M., Kuo, Chih-Horng, Reding, Dawn M., Addis, Elizabeth A., Flagel, Lex E., Janzen, Fredric J., Schwartz, Tonia S.

“…Significance Comparative analyses of central molecular networks uncover variation that can be targeted by biomedical research to develop insights and…”
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Variance component estimates, phenotypic characterization, and genetic evaluation of bovine congestive heart failure in commercial feeder cattle by Buchanan, Justin W, Flagel, Lex E, MacNeil, Michael D, Nilles, Ashley R, Hoff, Jesse L, Pickrell, Joseph K, Raymond, Randall C

“…The increasing incidence of bovine congestive heart failure (BCHF) in feedlot cattle poses a significant challenge to the beef industry from economic loss,…”
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Parallel up-regulation of the profilin gene family following independent domestication of diploid and allopolyploid cotton (Gossypium) by Bao, Ying, Hu, Guanjing, Flagel, Lex E., Salmon, Armel, Bezanilla, Magdalena, Paterson, Andrew H., Wang, Zining, Wendel, Jonathan F.

“…Cotton is remarkable among our major crops in that four species were independently domesticated, two allopolyploids and two diploids. In each case thousands of…”
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The standing pool of genomic structural variation in a natural population of Mimulus guttatus by Flagel, Lex E, Willis, John H, Vision, Todd J

“…Major unresolved questions in evolutionary genetics include determining the contributions of different mutational sources to the total pool of genetic…”
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Efficient soybean transformation using hygromycin B selection in the cotyledonary-node method by Olhoft, Paula M., Flagel, Lex E., Donovan, Christopher M., Somers, David A.

“…The efficiency of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] transformation was significantly increased from an average of 0.7% to 16.4% by combining strategies to…”
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The utility of genomic prediction models in evolutionary genetics by McGaugh, Suzanne E., Lorenz, Aaron J., Flagel, Lex E.

“…Variation in complex traits is the result of contributions from many loci of small effect. Based on this principle, genomic prediction methods are used to make…”
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Evidence of natural selection acting on a polymorphic hybrid incompatibility locus in Mimulus by Sweigart, Andrea L, Flagel, Lex E

“…As a common cause of reproductive isolation in diverse taxa, hybrid incompatibilities are fundamentally important to speciation. A key question is which…”
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Spotted cotton oligonucleotide microarrays for gene expression analysis by Udall, Joshua A, Flagel, Lex E, Cheung, Foo, Woodward, Andrew W, Hovav, Ran, Rapp, Ryan A, Swanson, Jordan M, Lee, Jinsuk J, Gingle, Alan R, Nettleton, Dan, Town, Christopher D, Chen, Z Jeffrey, Wendel, Jonathan F

“…Microarrays offer a powerful tool for diverse applications plant biology and crop improvement. Recently, two comprehensive assemblies of cotton ESTs were…”
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Co-expression network analysis of duplicate genes in maize (Zea mays L.) reveals no subgenome bias by Li, Lin, Briskine, Roman, Schaefer, Robert, Schnable, Patrick S, Myers, Chad L, Flagel, Lex E, Springer, Nathan M, Muehlbauer, Gary J

“…Gene duplication is prevalent in many species and can result in coding and regulatory divergence. Gene duplications can be classified as whole genome…”
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Phenetic Comparison of Seven Echinacea Species Based on Immunomodulatory Characteristics by Senchina, David S, Flagel, Lex E, Wendel, Jonathan F, Kohut, Marian L

“…The purpose of the present investigation was to compare similarities and differences in immune response among Echinacea species, which are commonly used to…”
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Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) transcriptome assembly and genomic analysis of population structure by Flagel, Lex E, Bansal, Raman, Kerstetter, Randall A, Chen, Mao, Carroll, Matthew, Flannagan, Ronald, Clark, Thomas, Goldman, Barry S, Michel, Andy P

“…Western corn rootworm (WCR) is one of the most significant insect pests of maize in North America. WCR has dramatically increased its range in the last…”
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Genetic markers for western corn rootworm resistance to Bt toxin by Flagel, Lex E, Swarup, Shilpa, Chen, Mao, Bauer, Christopher, Wanjugi, Humphrey, Carroll, Matthew, Hill, Patrick, Tuscan, Meghan, Bansal, Raman, Flannagan, Ronald, Clark, Thomas L, Michel, Andrew P, Head, Graham P, Goldman, Barry S

“…Western corn rootworm (WCR) is a major maize (Zea mays L.) pest leading to annual economic losses of more than 1 billion dollars in the United States…”
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Coordinated and Fine-Scale Control of Homoeologous Gene Expression in Allotetraploid Cotton by Flagel, Lex E, Chen, Liping, Chaudhary, Bhupendra, Wendel, Jonathan F

“…Within polyploid plant species, it has been demonstrated that homoeologous genes (genes duplicated by polyploidy) often display dynamic expression patterns. To…”
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Phylogenetic, morphological, and chemotaxonomic incongruence in the North American endemic genus Echinacea by Flagel, Lex E, Rapp, Ryan A, Grover, Corrinne E, Widrlechner, Mark P, Hawkins, Jennifer, Grafenberg, Jessie L, Álvarez, Inés, Chung, Gyu Young, Wendel, Jonathan F

“…The study of recently formed species is important because it can help us to better understand organismal divergence and the speciation process. However, these…”
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